Michael Cohen returns to witness stand in Trump hush money trial
Cohen is expected to delve into payments he said he received from Trump in return for hush money paid to Stormy Daniels in the closing days of the 2016 campaign.
Donald Trump's longtime lawyer Michael Cohen returned to the witness stand Tuesday for testimony about the payments he said he received from the former president in return for hush money paid to adult film actor Stormy Daniels in the closing days of the 2016 campaign.
Prosecutors allege that Trump falsified business records relating to those payments by classifying them as legal services pursuant to a retainer agreement. Cohen testified Monday in New York City that no such retainer agreement existed.
He said Tuesday that Trump had told him to work out how he would be reimbursed with Allen Weisselberg, then the chief financial officer of the Trump Organization. He said Trump reiterated that position when he met with Cohen in the Oval Office in 2017. "Make sure you deal with Allen," Cohen quoted him as saying.
Cohen said that soon after he started receiving monthly $35,000 checks from Trump after he sent an invoice for "legal services rendered." Prosecutor Susan Hoffinger asked if he'd performed any legal services. "No, ma'am," Cohen answered.
"Was this invoice a false record?" she asked. "Yes, ma'am," he replied.
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